2009/4/3 Gerd König <koenig@transporeon.com>:
> Hello,
>
> since 2 days ago we're facing an increased load on our database server
> (opensuse10.3-64bit, PostgreSQL 8.3.5, 8GB Ram). This high load stays the whole
> working day.
How man cores?
> ==================
> current situation:
> ==================
> #>top
> top - 14:09:46 up 40 days, 8:08, 2 users, load average: 7.60, 7.46, 7.13
> ...
> Mem: 8194596k total, 5716680k used, 2477916k free, 185516k buffers
> Swap: 4200988k total, 204k used, 4200784k free, 5041448k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 17478 postgres 15 0 610m 455m 444m R 52 5.7 0:08.78 postmaster
> 17449 postgres 15 0 606m 497m 489m S 37 6.2 0:16.35 postmaster
> 22541 postgres 16 0 607m 522m 516m R 31 6.5 123:25.17 postmaster
> 17491 postgres 15 0 618m 447m 435m S 22 5.6 0:03.97 postmaster
> 17454 postgres 15 0 616m 474m 457m S 18 5.9 0:15.88 postmaster
> 22547 postgres 15 0 608m 534m 527m S 18 6.7 100:12.01 postmaster
> 17448 postgres 16 0 616m 517m 501m S 17 6.5 0:15.60 postmaster
> 17451 postgres 15 0 611m 491m 479m S 11 6.1 0:25.04 postmaster
> 17490 postgres 15 0 606m 351m 344m S 10 4.4 0:02.69 postmaster
> 22540 postgres 15 0 607m 520m 513m S 2 6.5 33:46.47 postmaster
> 17489 postgres 15 0 604m 316m 311m S 2 4.0 0:03.34 postmaster
Next time hit c first to see what the postmasters are up to.
> I assume the problem is caused by heavy writing slows down the
> server....?!?...why?=>
The problem might be that you're assuming there's a problem. Looking
at the rest of your diags, you're data set fits in memory, I/O wait is
< 10% and there are no processes waiting for a CPU to free up, they're
all running.
Looks healthy to me.